WASHINGTON, MAY 23: Attributing the growing hatred against America in the Arab
world to Bush administrations actions in Iraq and West Asia, a leading
newspaper here on Sunday claimed that US President George W Bushs foreign
policy is falling apart. The Bush foreign policy is falling
apart, the Washington Post said stating, the United States has not made
a crucial advance in the campaign against terror, as the President
claimed when he declared victory in Iraq on May 1, 2003. Instead, we have
stimulated new hatred of the US in precisely the regions from which future terrorist
threats are most likely to arise, while alienating our traditional allies,
the newspaper said.

By embracing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharons plan to withdraw unilaterally
from Gaza, we abandoned the honest broker role that the US governments
tried to play for four decades in the Middle East, and we confirmed the conspiratorial
suspicions of every anti-American Arab. Our credibility has been battered, the
newspaper stated.

We set out to put fear into the hearts of our enemies by demonstrating
the efficacy of a new doctrine of pre-emptive war. Instead, we have shown the
timeless nature of hubris. Last week we announced the transfer of 3,600
troops of the overstrained US Army away from the border of what might be the
worlds most dangerous country, North Korea. They will be sent to help
with the war in Iraq, for which we now acknowledge we had inadequate resources.

Contrary to Bush administrations stated and implied promises, we
will be greeted as liberators was the Vice Presidents famous version,
the daily said, the US did not achieve a relatively low-cost triumph in
Iraq. Instead, it has a crisis of still-growing dimensions.

The war has damaged the good name of the US in every corner of the globe, has
cost unanticipated scores of billions of dollars (all of it borrowed), and now
threatens long-term damage to the US Army and national guard, the Washington
Post said.